500 B.C.

By 500 B.C. the lakes had completely filled in. The bog was now higher than the land around giving it it's name ,Raised. Around this time, the climate was drier than today, and large trees were able to grow on the bog itself. These have been found buried in bogs today, along with grasses that could not survive there now. Farmers would have used the drier bogs for grazing in summer.
Jordan and Alexander